manumittere

“A pathological risk minimization is a lifestyle disease. It causes the lack of immunity in the society, making it rigid and static. The certainty is one of our basic human needs, but reduction of risks below the healthy level has devastating effects. In all scales and in all fields – in nature and human society, in education, economy, but also in art and architecture, the risk reduction is poisonous. The purpose of the project was not to root out the consequences of the compulsive risk reduction, nor to artificially raise the risk probability. The aim was to start a long process of the risk acceptance.” (from the Manumit project).

Eventually the idea was rooted and formed into the Manumittere movement. The rituals of this group were aimed at maximizing risk and freeing up by the exposure. The members of the movement heard the voice of Manumit and followed his teachings. The final ritual was the voluntary acceptance of a 100% risk of death and subsequent liberation on the way through the landscape of the universe.
The video captures the ritual. We follow the last minutes of the mantras spoken by the Manumit follower. The capsule with the man inside does not have any oxygen or water supply, we therefore witness the last moments before the ritual is “completed” and the man is manumited by the eternal sleep.

The Mantra:

My hands are tied up
I will be woken up and will be free from sleep,
The sleep will liberate me,
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At the time of darkness you did not let us quench
At the time of darkness, when we were tied by fear,
You will be woken up and will be free from sleep though,
The sleep will liberate you,
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“One day you will break free from the shell”
Your voice raved us and we followed.
You will be woken up in your sleep and will be free,
The sleep will liberate you,
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Set the way for my deeds, lead us,
Out from hiding, we’ll loose our chains.
I will be woken up and will be free from sleep,
At that moment the sleep will liberate you,
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The intangible space dampens my voice
The intangible space senses the power in me.
And I wake up free from the sleep,
By the sleep I was liberated with,
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Manumittere, liberate me
Manumite, my hands are now free
I will be woken up and will be free from sleep,
The sleep will liberate me,

The intangible space dampens my voice
The intangible space senses the power in me.
And I wake up free from the sleep,
By the sleep I was liberated with,
manumittere

Manumittere, liberate me
Manumite, my hands are now free
I will be woken up and will be free from sleep,
The sleep will liberate me,

2016, video (5m 50s), 1920 x 1080 px